Jillian in the Borderlands

The darkly funny tales in Jillian in the Borderlands feature visionary experiences, ghosts, faith healers, a deer’s head that speaks, a dog who channels spirits of the dead— and a young woman whose drawings begin to create realities instead of just reflecting them. “Immediately, in the first tale," reviewer Kathryn Ordiway writes, "the reader is plunged into Jillian’s world, a hallucinatory one of ghosts and eternal knowledge, but also a familiar one, filled with deportations and racial inj...